From Emma Wedgwood [30 December 1838]
Summary
Seeks to persuade CD to leave town at once, go to Shrewsbury for doctoring and some rest, then come to Maer for more rest, for he has looked "so unwell". She knows it must be hard for him to be unable to do his work.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-465 |
To Emma Wedgwood [31 December 1838 –] 1 January 1839
Summary
Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.
Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-466 |
From Sarah Harriet Hosier Williams [27 November 1838]
Summary
Invites CD to dine with them on Wednesday, since she will have few more opportunities of seeing "the original old Charles Darwin".
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-446 |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
Document type
| letter | (84) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
| Darwin, Emma | (8) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (8) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Langton, Charlotte | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (84) |
| Darwin, Emma | (15) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (15) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
